On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:58:50AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 23:14, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:15:31PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > > Try this URL > > > > > > < http://www.highliftsystems.com/ > re: space elevators. > > > > Hey, cool! Fascinating. Someone's actually doing it! > > Can you imagine a 100 or a 1000 of these things? Would it be possible to use > them to increase the length of a day? What would happen when the ribbon > broke and came fluttering back to the planet's surface? A string of > catastrophes across several land masses? Go read Red Mars, then Green Mars and see :) Suffice to say, it's not a good thing to let happen... -rob
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